The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metaphor, description, and dance. They tend toward, and tend to, the inanimate and non-human, tenderly disclosing their forms of sentience. We have feelings for creatures, objects and places, but where do these affinities come from? How do things, as things, affect us, remain mysterious while making themselves known? For Capildeo answers formed at their own pace, while waiting for lambing at a friend's farm; exploring the Ashmolean Museum in...
The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood, metapho...